1995Press
Release from the Avant label:Avant
is proud to announce the release of Bob Ostertag's Fear No Love. In a radical
departure for the composer, winner of a 1995 NEA Composers Fellowship for
contemporary music, Fear No Love features fierce groove-based dance songs.
This is funk, but warped through a sensibility honed in fifteen years at
the forefront of the avant-garde.

Ostertag
has assembled an unlikely and dazzling group of collaborators for Fear
No Love, from rock star Mike Patton (Faith No More) to British guitar pioneer
Fred Frith to underground luminaries of San Francisco's queer scene. Vocalists
include Lynn Breedlove of the scandalous hard-core dyke band Tribe 8; legendary
chanteuse and performance diva Justin Bond; Raz Kennedy of Bobbie McFerrin's
Voicestra and session superman with Kenny Loggins and many others; and
Christian Huygen of the pop trio Absolut Manpussy.

Fear
No Love is a disc that pushes all the limits. Almost every track defines
its own genre. "The Man in the Blue Slip" is a dance/industrial/gender-fuck/domination-submission
love duet. "Not Your Girl" goes in a new-jack-swing/R&B/talking-blues
direction. And "Positive", an HIV+/ambient/techno/soul tour de force, may
be the first true love ballad of the age of AIDS.

Ostertag's
previous work has ranged from All the Rage, written for the Kronos Quartet
and premiered at Lincoln Center, to his ground-breaking outside jazz ensemble
Say No More, to his solo recordings and collaborations with John Zorn and
Fred Frith. Fear No Love explores even newer terrain. With sharp and edgy
queer lyrics, a wide-ranging pop eclecticism, and fierce grooves, Fear
No Love will shake up the dance floor -- and more.